Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-02-11
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Just before the steamer Wyandotte carry
ing mixed cargo and passengers and crew
numbering ffty-seven, left the New YORK
wharf young man came up from the cabin
and hurriedly went ashore. When the steamer
was off Long Branch q tremendous explosion
occurred. An investigation showed hole
fifteen feet square blown through both decks,
doing much damage to the cabin and joiner
work. No one was seriously injured. The
young man who left the ship just before she
started came aboard with a small satchcl in his
hand. He did not have it when he went
ashore 1t is believed the satchel contained
an explosive.
Edward Unger, arrested on suspicion of
being the murderer of the man whose head
less body was found in trunk at Baltimore,
has confessed his guilt of the crime He slept
in the room with the corpse one night before
deciding what to do with it Fortifying him
! self with whisky, he proceeded to cut up the
body, packing it in the trunk US found. The
head he wrapped up in paper and took to the
ferry. and when in mid-stream threw it over
board.
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of the St Louis trunk tragedy, was to have
been executed on the LIST inst At the last
moment the Supreme Court of Missouri grant
ed stay of execution until April /, pending
an appeal for new trial.
"A high wind on the west slope of the Cas-
cade Mountains, east of Tacoma, w. r., blew
down large tree into the camp where num-
Der of Chinese laborers were sleeping Nine
dead bodies had been removed atlast accounts
and dozen or more injured. There is three
to four feet Of snow on the ground and several
bodies are still supposed to be buried in the
snow under the fallen timber.
-Lud Cornish, of Sharpsburg, Ky, who
shot Mrs. Lulu Greene through the heart be.
cause she would not marry him, and attempt.
ed to shoot her mother, was taken from the
Springfield Jail and lynched on the night OF
January 80.
Raymond Belmont son of the great New
York banker, August Belmont, suicided on the
morning of the 31st, by shooting himself in the
head with pistol at his fathers residence on
Fifth avenue Young Belmont returned from,
an evening party considerably in liquor, anG
to it's influence is attributed his rash act.
Phil D. Miller, well-known poultry and
fne-stock raiser of Panora Iowa, took NOR
phine on the Goth with suicidal intent and
died on the 3oth. Cause unknown.
| Joseph Wilson Kehoe, who swindled q New.
ark, N. j., bank out of $75, 600, was arrested a
a Winnipeg hotel, where he had registered at
James Wilson, Oil City, Pa" Kehoe bcliev
ing he could be extradited, consented to re
turn He says he can and will pay back oil
the money but $1,000, in which event it is I'm
derstood the bank officials will not prosecute
him.
Ludlow Cornish, who murdered Miss Lul,
Green at Sharpsville, Ky, made an attempt t.
kill his jailer with a post wrenched from al
iron bedstead. He is now handcuffed and tiet
with cords.
%. r. Westerman, photographer an,
resident of Joliet, Ill, for twelve years, an,
once colonel in the German army, kile'
himself with prussic acid rather than suffe
the amputation Of leg.
Five of the men engaged i'll the train rob
berry at Gordon, Tex, on the 23d, have bee
arrested, and it is quite probable that the othe
three will be captured.
In the village of Uniontown, Ohio, fiv
married ladies of middle age dropped iron
supposed heart disease between Monday an
Thursday mornings of last week. The frs
was Mrs. ]. Ferber, who died suddenly in bed
next came Mrs. Lewis Archer, who droppe
dead on the street: Mrs S. Johnson's bod
was found in bed by the side of her husband
Mrs s. Powell dropped dead at the breakfas
table, and Mrs H. Hansel dropped dead in he
house. 1t is thought fright and cxcitemer
from the first sudden death brought on tn
others.
DIR. Schooler, of the Iowa College Q
Physicians and Surgeons, at Des Moines, ha
been arrested on an indictment charging hir
with completely in a recent grave robbery 8